Night of the Mannequins Review: Vengeful Velveteen Rabbit
“So Shanna got a new job at the movie theater, we thought we’d play a fun prank on her, and now most of us are dead, and I’m really starting to feel kind of…
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Harrow the Ninth Review
Rejoice! For the necromancers are back, and they are gayer than ever. Pansexual, polyamorous lusts and even a few chaste passions simmer beneath more layers of mystery and necromantic magic than ever before, and…
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Drowned Country Review: Rushing Waters Run Deep
Emily Tesh has done it again. She’s taken old and frankly overused staples of the Western/English canon and imbued them with new vigor and fresh surprises. Fairies? Vampires? Why not both together, each in…
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Flyaway Review: Exquisite, Exquisite, Exquisite
Flyaway is exquisite, exquisite, exquisite. Saying it once is not enough. And not just for emphasis: I’m hoping I can invoke even a fraction of the magic contained within Kathleen Jenning’s masterful little book.…
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Black Voices to Support
Hopefully you are already reading Ta-Nahesi Coates, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Ibrahim X. Kendi. Obviously if you like SFF you should read Toni Morrison*, Octavia Butler, N.K. Jemisin, and Samuel Delany. But to round…
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Asian and Asian American Authors Publishing into the Pandemic
If you’re struggling to find ways to contribute during the pandemic, a small way you can help several communities at once is to buy books by Asian or Asian American authors from your local…
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NVK Review: A Finnish Vampire in Shanghai
Like many people during this pandemic, I’ve been in a bit of a reading funk. A bit of a doing-anything-at-all funk, if I’m being honest. I lose interest in things quickly, if I do…
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19 Books About Pandemics
If you want to lean into the trend, here are fifteen books about pandemics that can hopefully take some of the stress out of distancing, quarantine, or just the general anxiety of being alive…
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Hearts of Oak Review: Is Life What We Make?
Note: I don’t think it’s possible to give this book a proper review without at least some spoilers, but since there are several dramatic reveals and—I hesitate to call them “twists” since they’re not…
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The Gentleman Review: Exuberant Dev’lry
Forrest Leo’s The Gentleman is a silly book. It knows it is. It exults in absurdity, delights in mishap, and does an absolute jig around the plot. And why not? We need some silliness…
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